"I try to catch them right on the tip of his nose, because I try to punch the bone into the brain."
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"I started this foundation when I was diagnosed. It was established for one reason, and that was to try to find a cure for MS. Every penny, 100% of the public donations that come into this are given back out in the form of grants to colleges and researchers around the world."
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"I thought of killing myself but soon decided that I could always try MIT and then kill myself later if it was that bad but that I couldn't commit suicide and then try MIT afterwards. The two operations, suicide and going to MIT, don't commute."
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"We were trying to increase the conflict that was already happening... we felt that we would take the conflict to so high a level that some change had to come."
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"Try to find your deepest issue in every confusion, and abide by that."
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"When the friendly jailer gave Socrates the poison cup to drink, the jailer said: "Try to bear lightly what needs must be." Socrates did. He faced death with a calmness and resignation that touched the hem of divinity."
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"Naturalness is the easiest thing in the world to acquire, if you will forget yourself-forget about the impression you are trying to make."
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"An author should never conceive himself as bringing into existence beauty or wisdom which did not exist before, but simply and solely as trying to embody in terms of his own art some reflection of eternal Beauty and Wisdom."
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"Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed."
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"No man who values originality will ever be original. But try to tell the truth as you see it, try to do any bit of work as well as it can be done for the work's sake, and what men call originality will come unsought."
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"If there's even one thing we can do - even one life we can save - we have an obligation to try"
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"I was trying to organise my DVDs into a sort of chronological order, and I am afraid that it all trailed off after the Sixties."
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"When you possess great treasures within you and try to tell others of them, seldom are you believed."
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"To travel is the experience of ceasing to be the person you are trying to be, and becoming the person you really are."
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"I feel it's my duty as a human being, as a person who is trying - like everybody else who thinks about the state of the world - to enhance the importance of multicultural connection."
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"I've noticed that loneliness gets stronger when we try to face it down, but gets weaker when we simply ignore it."
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"The world is divided into those who understand me and those who don’t. In the case of the latter, I simply leave them to torment themselves trying to gain my sympathy."
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"I try to stay away from forced intimacy."
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"I'm trying to think, don't confuse me with facts."
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"If you've looked at all the glamour magazines lately, all the covers are actresses. If they are on those covers, they are going to try to emulate models. That's just the way it is."
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